okular does not find the eps figures in dvi files

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Okular is not able to find pictures which are located on another directory than the dvi file is.

I use texlive-2008. My figures are located on my user directory ~/figures symlinked to my ~/texmf/figures. During compilation the latex finds the pictures correctly. For example, making subsequently:
latex paper
dvipdf paper
I can see pictures in the paper in acroread. Unfortunately, in spite of the correct latex compilation the okular is not able to show pictures in paper.dvi. Instead of that I find red boxes with a text ,,the picture is not found''. I use the Polish version of KDE4 but it does not matter I hope.

Here is my texconfig

pawel@lin ~/pawel/papers/paper2 $ texconfig conf
=========================== version information ==========================

==================== binaries found by searching $PATH ===================
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.4
kpsewhich: /usr/bin/kpsewhich
updmap: /usr/bin/updmap
fmtutil: /usr/bin/fmtutil
texconfig: /usr/bin/texconfig
tex: /usr/bin/tex
pdftex: /usr/bin/pdftex
mktexpk: /usr/bin/mktexpk
dvips: /usr/bin/dvips
dvipdfm: not found

=========================== active config files ==========================
//etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
//etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
//etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi
config: not found

============================= font map files =============================
psfonts.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
pdftex.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
ps2pk.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map
dvipdfm.map: //var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map

=========================== kpathsea variables ===========================
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texmf
TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texmf-dist
TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/share/texmf
TEXMFSYSVAR=//var/lib/texmf
TEXMFSYSCONFIG=//etc/texmf
TEXMFVAR=/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var
TEXMFCONFIG=/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config
TEXMFHOME=/home/pawel/texmf
VARTEXFONTS=//var/cache/fonts
TEXMF={/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}
SYSTEXMF=//var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-site:/usr/share/texmf-dist
TEXMFDBS={!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist,!!/usr/share/texmf-doc}
WEB2C={/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/web2c
TEXPSHEADERS=.:{/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type42,type3}}//
TEXCONFIG={/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/dvips//
ENCFONTS=.:{/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc//
TEXFONTMAPS=.:{/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-config,/home/pawel/.texlive2008/texmf-var,/home/pawel/texmf,!!//etc/texmf,!!//var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-site,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/map/{kpsewhich,pdftex,dvips,}//

==== kpathsea variables from environment only (ok if no output here) ====